Cannot restore from previous backups

Hi,
I stupidly restored my iphone to original settings earlier.
I am now trying to use one of several backups however, itunes will not let me choose them when i choose to restore from backup...
Please advise what is wrong and how i can save my iphone!
Thanks

Ah, in which case you have no backups to go back to ....
As I briefly mentioned earlier, every new backup event overwrites the previous one. When you mistakenly reset the device, you must have allowed it to do a backup before restoring it and so that backup overwrote your previous backup.
Unless you have any hard disc backups, you may have lost the lot.
Paid Apps can be downloaded again for free though and you should still have your iTunes library to resync as new though.

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